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Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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What information would your bike send to the car in this example that would help? We're closer to having lidar in all new cars than this mesh network, so "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed" is something the car already knows. "The cyclist requested you not to turn in front of him" - why would anyone ever send anything else? Perhaps the car can send you a message instead "I'm going to cut you…

The idea would be more like the car, not the human behind the wheel, would realize that if it right-hooked me that would be bad (read insurance-increasing, citeable offense, etc.) and wait, where the driver would just keep flipping through their playlist and crush me.

This just seems way better and more likely to be solved with lidar, or a similar passive solution, rather than relying on your bike to broadcast "this guy is more vulnerable/faster/more litigious than you expect, so be really sure not to clip him".

Even if the network was there, it's a difficult physical/technological problem to figure out everyone's relative position and velocity to suitable precision with something like GPS, or GPS + accelerometers. But mostly solved with lidar.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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Oh no I forgot to charge my helmet. Also, helmets are meant to be replaced every couple of years as the materials deteriorate (UV/heat) and the protection dissipates. As we like to say, dentist helmet.

I’m so done with technology’s “answer to a question nobody asked.” Like bluetooth derailleurs. Utter garbage. The only down side is that this wave of technocrap wipes out shelf space for analog cyclists. Hard enough to find a decent triple front derailleur, let alone 48-spoke hubs with a cartridge. Now this crap.

I'm not sure about the "question nobody asked". Bluetooth is perhaps a gimmick, but in all seriousness an electrically actuated derailleur is a blessing for anyone doing audax / long distance. I have my wrists damaged enough from sitting at a keyboard all day. I don't have to add to it whenever I need to shift gears on a bike.

I see the point of it being a potential e-waste in 10 years, but I'm not sure the mechanical route was much better in that respect (looking at you, shimano shifter-derailleur-brake compatibility table that currently runs a few pages long even before adding all the Di2 stuff)

BTW - "what" do You need a 48-spoke hub for? Are You building cargo bikes in Your spare time? I'm not trying to be snarky - the "all our bikes load limit is 120kg bicycle included" has long been bothering me as well (100kg rider), so... kinda curious about Your side projects

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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post #138
post #104

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What? GP's claim is that hair provides a similar benefit. VA is simply not testing heads with hair on them -- their tests can't "show otherwise" (your claim).

> GP's claim is that hair provides a similar benefit. GP provides no evidence for that. VA Tech not addressing it (if it's true that they don't - I have no reason to believe it) is not evidence. VA Tech also doesn't address my theory that microscopic super-intelligent aliens affect helmet response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#144

To anyone who wants to ride more safely I cannot recommend enough this simple $20 mirror which I find so valuable that I buy extra and hand them out to friends and strangers to help keep them safer. A mirror mounted on your glasses or a similar mirror affixed to your helmet (close to your eyes and mounted on your head) allows for a large field of view that you can easily steer to see behind you. I ride on the streets…

Radars do this better. They can warn you from much further away and do not require for you to keep an eye out - there’s audible cues.

Do they also show bikes? I use the mirror not just to monitor cars but see where my friends are. If a friend breaks down and is on the side of the road I want to see without having to fully turn my head around.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#145
post #127

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"one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%" That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited. https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...

That's not what the ACS cited; this is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10796827/

Same author, same BS.

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

#146
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Yeah some random blog from keen bikers is really debunking it all globally, including common sense. I don't get this fanatical defense of no-helmet-at-all-fucking-cost stance many here often express. I personally know a person who died in bike accident helmet-less, she went head first due to slamming front brake too hard, straight on the head on tarmac, no complex situation, it was more than enough. I had similar sit…

Yeah, it's funny that some guy who baselessly claims that " 99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes" (when people say "99%", odds are that they are pulling it out of their nether regions) then says that a study cited by the American College of Surgeons (which only says that "one study suggests") "has been thoroughly debunked", offering a citation that doesn't say that . What it does say is that the number from the…

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Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. There is no styrofoam helmet which will protect against that, and the VaTech test notably does not model that type of crash. To my knowledge, the only group that tried to test bike helmets against a car is Volvo -- and all helmets failed.

99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. US or globally? Got any stats to link to on that?

US.

Here are 2017 numbers (ok...only 96% that year). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Re: Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

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post #127

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"one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%" That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited. https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...

That's not what the ACS cited; this is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10796827/

It's not BS just because some intellectually dishonest drunk declares it to be.
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